Modern Application Solution Architect

Company Description

Hitachi Solutions understand what it takes to digitally transform organisations, harnessing the power of the latest technologies and seamlessly integrating them into businesses. As a global consultancy firm working across the private and public sectors, we specialise in user-friendly business applications based on the Microsoft cloud.

With a team of experienced industry professionals, consultants and technology experts, Hitachi Solutions has a wide range of capabilities including digital transformation, ERP and CRM implementation, change management and data science & analytics. Our highly skilled team help drive improvements to many aspects of your business creating efficiencies and growth.

Hitachi Solutions provides high quality solutions with predictable delivery. We do this with clear process, standards, and an unrivaled commitment to quality.

Job Description

Hitachi Solutions provides high quality solutions with predictable delivery. We do this with clear process, standards, and an unrivaled commitment to quality. As a Modern Applications Solution Architect, you will be the lynchpin of our application development engagements.

Modern Applications Solution Architects lead client engagements from definition through delivery. You will collaborate with customers to scope the engagement, define requirements, turn those requirements into application design and architecture, create a delivery plan, and work with a team of developers and quality assurance engineers in delivering high quality applications.

Hitachi Solutions practices hands on leadership, so our Architect and Delivery leaders will be equally at home leading teams and writing software.

Leadership/Client Facing:

• Methodology leadership - Scrum/Agile guidance (team & client), and backlog/roadmap management
• Technical team leadership
• People Management
• Technical Pre-Sales & Client Assessment leadership (i.e. research, validation, preparation, and lead nurturing in closing client engagements)
• Client-facing leadership

Technical Requirements:

• Experience:
• Single Page Application Development (e.g., Angular, React, or compatible)
• Mobile Application Development
• Microservices Architecture
• Containers
• IoT (Internet of Things) development
• JavaScript
• Angular (of particular interest)
• .Net Core (C# preferred)
• Asp.Net
• WebAPI
• Entity Framework/Dapper
• Azure Services (Logic Apps, Power Apps)
• Data Storage - relational and non-relational
• DevOps automation: CI/CD & IaC
• Design Patterns and architectural concepts
• Experience working in a Continuous Integration or Continuous Delivery environment
• One or more unit testing (examples: MS Test, NUnit) and mocking frameworks
• One or more Dependency Injection frameworks (Unity, Castle Windsor, SimpleInjector, NInject)
• Good knowledge of SQL Server/TSQL or other database technology but does not need to be an administrator.
• GIT and pull requests
• Automated Tests
• Optional: Powershell
• Optional: Experience in SSO (single sign-on)/federated security
• Optional: TypeScript
• Nice to haves: Azure, IoS, WordPress, Java, C/C++

Practices, Principles, Techniques:

• Application Security
• Agile/Scrum/XP (Extreme Programming)
• TDD (Test driven development)
• SOLID principles
• Unit Testing
• Understands and uses software patterns
• REST
• Optional: DevOps

Qualifications

Delivery Experience:

• 10+ years of overall experience
• Experience in defining, documenting, and delivering Application Design
• Experience in Requirements Gathering
• Experience in presenting and selling Application Architecture to internal or external stakeholders or customers
• Experience in managing delivery
• Experience mentoring others in development practices
• Experience working in a Continuous Integration or Continuous Delivery environment
• Project planning experience

Major Pluses:

• Adoption of Agile methodologies
• Adoption of Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment
• Adoption of SOLID principles
• Assessing the current state of an organization, recommending change, and implementing it.

Additional Information

We offer:

• Competitive salary and annual bonus
• Additional Premium Level Health Insurance
• Monthly Vouchers/Lifestyle Cash Supplement
• Monthly Travel Allowance
• Multisport Card
• Additional Holidays
• Specialised Training
• Option for Flexible working hours or home office
• Modern Office with excellent access to transport
• Drinks & Fruit Office Supply
• Professional & Friendly work environment
• Company events and Team Building
• Excellent Work-Life balance
• Opportunity to grow your career and work with international teams